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Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents
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Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more… a common informatics lexicon and workforce engagement and training are critical to public health, especially for … denomi- nator along with the number of ILI cases. Proper training and selecting the right practice played a large … each type of these automatically extracted events using training data, which contain actual health alerts, in … -
Using AFDL Algorithm to Estimate Risk of Positive Outcomes of Microbial Tests at Food Establishments
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One of the common tasks faced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food safety analysts is to estimate the risk of observing positive outcomes of microbial tests of food samples collected at the slaughter and food… read more… Montevideo over six months following two years worth of training data. Figure below presents lift charts summarizing … -
Smart homes and novel indicators to inform an evidence-based population health intervention for aging in place and design of a community health registry
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The critical need for population-level interventions to support the health needs of the growing population of older adults is widely recognized1. In addition, there is a need for novel indicators to monitor wellness as a resource for living and a… read more… Acknowledgments This work is supported by NINR Training Grant T32NR007106-13. References 1. Rice DP, … -
Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System
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When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more… code based systems. We use these cases to form powerful training and validation sets for a bag of words classifier. We train the classifier and assess its performance on the … -
Syndromic Surveillance and Climate Change, a Possible Use?
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This paper assesses the possible interest of using of a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency departments (ED) and crude mortality for monitoring health effects of climate changes (CC).… the basis of diagnosis or diagnosis grouping. This fine graining is necessary because ED global activity is too … -
A Closer Look at Developing a Statewide Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural State
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This paper describes the issues associated with the creation of a statewide emergency department syndromic surveillance system, part of the South Carolina Aberration Alerting Network (SCAAN), in a predominately rural state.… and completing follow-up investigations were written and trainings for both regional and central office staff were … -
Cluster Detection Incorporating Lagged Test Data
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Using New York CityÃs dead bird surveillance for West Nile Virus (WNV), this paper presents two explorations of the spatial cluster detection problem in which lagged test results are available for a random subset of observations. First, we… read more… years (2005 rr=1.68). However, using a baseline for the trailing 3 weeks drastically improved the clusters ability … -
Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes
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Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1 Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more… of negation. The final sample included 177 visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- TECT …